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A41009	Kātabaptistai kataptüstoi The dippers dipt, or, The anabaptists duck'd and plung'd over head and eares, at a disputation in Southwark : together with a large and full discourse of their 1. Original. 2. Severall sorts. 3. Peculiar errours. 4. High attempts against the state. 5. Capitall punishments, with an application to these times / by Daniel Featley ...	Featley, Daniel, 1582-1645.	1645 (1645)	Wing F586; ESTC R212388	182,961	216

nullifie all baptisme administred either by Romish priests or orthodox Protestants but condemn baptizing of children simply which neither the first nor the second sort of Anabaptists did for both the Novatians and Donatists yea and Pelagians too though they denied originall sin yet they all allowed and practised the baptisme of infants The author of this third and worst sect of Anabaptists was as some say Muncerus as others Balthasar Pacimontanus against whom Zuinglius wrote as others Carolstadius but I subscribe to Melancthou who lived in those times and could not but be very well acquainted with those passages which fell out near the place of his residence And he affirmeth as I said before that Nicholas Stock was the first that broached Anabaptisme in Germany This Stock affirmed that God spake to him by an Angel and revealed his will to him in dreams promising him the place of the Angel Gabriel in this mans school was Tho. Muncer bred who kept such a racket in Alset a citie in the borders of Thuringia and after him Iohn Leydan and Cniperdoling who in the year 1532. infected and infested also Munster wherein though they consul'd it and king'd it for a time yet in the end were taken pinched with fiery pincers and after stab'd to the heart with daggers and their bodies shut up in iron cages which were hung upon the highest steeple in Munster where they dance in the aire And as Garnet the Jesuit the great patron and practiser of equivocation in his life time is said to have equivocated in some sort after his death for two faces of his were shewed by Roman catholikes the one upon an iron pole the other upon a straw so these ring-leaders of the Anabaptists who stickled so much for re-baptizing in their life time have been a thousand times re-baptized since their death by every shower of rain beating through their iron lettice CHAP. II. Of the errors of the Anabaptists both common to other sects and those which are peculiarly their own THose who have raked into this mud find severall beds of these slippery Eels or rather indeed Lampreys for they have all of them some string or other of poyson in them Their errours they rank into three kinds First ecclesiasticall or in point of the church or matter of faith Secondly politicall or in point of policie or matter of state Thirdly oeconomicall or in point of family-government First their ecclesiasticall errors such as peculiarly concern the doctrine or discipline of the church are First That Christ took not flesh from the Virgin Mary but that he past through her as the Sun beams do through glasse or rain through a spout Secondly That there is no originall sin Thirdly That children ought not to be baptized Fourthly That such as have been baptized in their infancie ought to be re-baptized when they come to years of discretion Fifthly That Lay-people may preach and administer the sacraments Gastius p. 35. Anabaptistae sumunt sibi omnes praedicandi officium Sixthly That men have free will not only in naturall and morall but also in spirituall actions Seventhly That absolution and the church-peace ought to be denied to such who are fallen into any grievous sin yea though they repent of it Eighthly That Luthers doctrine is worse then the Popes Secondly their politicall errors or in matter of state are First That the people may depose their magistrates and chief rulers Sleid. ib. licere plebets in magistratum arnia sumere Secondly That a Christian with a good conscience may not take upon him or bear the office of a magistrate or keep any court of Justice Thirdly That none may administer an oath to another Fourthly That no malefactors ought to be put to death Thirdly their oeconomicall errors are First That no man hath a proprietie in his goods but that all things ought to be held in common Secondly That it is lawfull to have more wives then one at once Thirdly That a man may put away his wife if she differ from him in point of religion and be not of their sect These indeed are the most of their known errors yet all the Lampreys are not found in these beds there be some straglers and to the end that none of them escape we will put them all as it were into two great weels All the errors of the Anabaptists are of two sorts First such as they hold in common with other heretiks Secondly such as are peculiar to their sect First concerning the common errors we are to note that as the wild beasts in Africa meeting at the rivers to drinke engender one with another and beget strange monsters whence is that proverb semper Africa altquid apportat novi so diverse kinds of heretiks and schismatiks meeting together at unlawfull conventicles and having conference one with the other have mingled their opinions and brought forth mungrell heresies Epiphanius instanceth in diverse ancient heretiks but I shall only at this time in those heretikes I am now to deale with viz. the last and worst sort of Anabaptists these joyn their opinions and if I may so speake engender First with the Millenaties and their joynt issue is That Christ before the day of judgement shall come downe from heaven and reigne with the saints upon earth a thousand yeares in which time they shall destroy all the wicked binding their Kings in chaines and their Nobles in links of iron Secondly with the Catharists or Novatians and their joynt issue is That they are a communion of all saints and that none that hath fallen into idolatrie or any other grievous crime for which he hath beene excommunicated ought to be restored upon his repentance to the church Thirdly with the Donatists and their joynt issue is That in the true church there are no scandals or lewd and vitious livers that the church of Christ is confined to their sect that we ought to separate from all assemblies of Christians wherein there are any abuses or scandals yea though the church alloweth them not but seeketh to reforme them that all such as have been baptized by any other then those of their sect ought to be rebaptized Fourthly with the Priscillianists and their joynt issue is That Christ took not flesh from the Virgin Mary Fifthly with the Adamites and their joynt issue is That clothes were appointed not so much to cover shame as to discover sinne and that therefore they being such as Adam was in his innocencie ought to goe naked and not to be ashamed Sixtly with the Apostolici that is a sort of hereticks who perversely and preposterously imitated the first Christians in the dayes of the Apostles and their joynt issue is That none ought to possesse any lands or goods to himself but that they ought to have all things in common This was

of the Gospel both by the Law of God and by the Law of nature vers 7. Who goeth a warfare on his own charge who planteth a vineyard and eateth not of the fruit thereof or who feedeth a flock and eateth not of the milk of the flock and vers 13. Doe ye not know that those that minister about holy things live of the things of the Temple and they that wait at the Altar be partakers with the Altar even so hath the Lord ordained that they which preach the Gospel should live of the Gospel He saith not God permitteth or alloweth of it but ordaineth and commandeth it And lest these two strings should not be strong enough to keepe the bow still bent he addeth a third to wit an Apostolical injunction let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things Moreover when we read that Abraham and Iacob gave tithes I demand by what Law whether by the Law of nature or the Leviticall or Evangelicall not by vertue of the Leviticall for that Law was not then enacted and by that Law Levi was to receive not pay tithes Yet Levi himselfe in Abraham paid tithes to Melchisedech if they paid it by the Law of nature that bindeth all men if by the Evangelicall Law it bindeth all Christians to pay their tithes towards the maintenance of Melchisedechs Priesthood which endureth for ever And Saint Austine fearfully upon this ground threatneth all those who refuse willingly to pay their tithes that God would reduce them to a tithe and blast all the nine parts of their estate Thirdly I except against the thirty ninth Article viz. that baptisme is an ordinance of the new Testament given by Christ to be dispensed only upon persons professing Faith or that are disciples or taught who upon a profession of Faith ought to be baptized Here they lispe not but speak out plaine their Anabaptisticall doctrine whereby they exclude all the children of the faithfull from the sacrament of entrance into the Church and the only outward meanes of their salvation in that state but the best of their proofes fall short the word only which only can prove this their assertion is not found in any of the texts alledged in the margent nor can the sense of it be collected from thence For though it is most true and evident in the letter of those texts that all Nations that are to be converted and all men in them of yeers of discretion that have been taught the principles of Religion ought to make profession of their Faith before they are baptized as all that came to mens estate among the Jews or proselytes ought both to know and to give their assent to the covenant before they received the seal thereof to wit circumcision yet no such thing was or could be required of children who notwithstanding were circumcised the eight day so by the judgement of all the Christian Churches in the world the children of beleevers who are comprised in the letter of the covenant may receive the seal thereof to wit baptisme though they cannot make profession of their Faith by themselves for the present but others make it for them and in their stead the affirmative is true that all that make profession of their Faith and testifie their unfained repentance are to be baptized but the negative is most false that none are to be baptized who have not before made such profession of their Faith when by reason of their infancie they are not capable to be taught But this hereticall assertion is at large resu'ed by manifold Arguments drawne from Scripture Fathers and reason and all their cavils and evasions exploded Article 2. to which I refer the Reader Fourthly I except against the fortieth Article viz. The way and manner of dispensing of this Ordinance the Scripture holds out to be dipping or plunging the whole body under water it being a signe must answer the things signified which are these 1. The washing of the whole soul in the blood of Christ 2. That interest the Saints have in the death buriall and resurrection of Christ 3. Together with a confirmation of our Faith that as certainly as the body is buried under water and riseth again so certainly shall the bodies of the Saints be raised by the power of Christ in the day of the resurrection to reigne with Christ. This Article is wholly sowred with the new leaven of Anabaptisme I say the new leaven for it cannot be proved that any of the ancient Anabaptists maintained any such position there being three wayes of baptizing either by dipping or washing or sprinkling to which the Scripture alludeth in sundry places the Sacrament is rightly administred by any of the three and whatsoever is here alleadged for dipping we approve of so far as it excludeth not the other two Dipping may be and hath been used in some places trina immersio a threefold dipping but there is no necessity of it it is not essentiall to Baptisme neither doe the Texts in the margent conclude any such thing It is true Iohn baptized Christ in Iordan and Philip baptized the Eunuch in the river but the Text saith not that either the Eunuch or Christ himselfe or any baptized by Iohn or his Disciples or any of Christs Disciples were dipped plunged or dowsed over head and eares as this Article implyeth and our Anabaptists now practise Againe the bare example of Christ and his Apostles without a precept doth not bind the Church and precept there is none for dipping it is certaine Christ and his Apostles celebrated the Communion after Supper and in unleavened bread and with such a gesture as was then in use among the Jewes yet because there is no precept in the Gospell for these things no Christian Church at this day precisely observeth those circumstances and therefore dato non concesso that Christ and Saint Iohn or their Disciples used dipping in Baptisme it will not follow that we ought to baptize in the like and no other manner Besides it ought to be noted that in the beginning Christians had no Churches nor Fonts in them and there being many hundreds nay thousands often to be baptized together there was a kind of necessity that this Sacrament should be administred in rivers or such places where were store of waters as there were in Enon neare Salem where John baptized But now the Church hath better provided there being Christian Oratories every where and Fonts in them most convenient for this purpose whereunto I shall need to adde here no more having fully handled this point both 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 in the discussion of the first Article Fiftly I except against the 41. Article viz. The persons designed by Christ to dispence this ordinance the Scripture hold forth to be a preaching Disciple it being no where tyed to a particular Church Officer or Person If the eye be

18 20. Hos. 4. 4 9. Mal. 2. 7. Ergo None ought to confound them ANABAP ANSWER By the Leviticall Law the Priests were distinguished from the people but that distinction is now taken away and by the Gospel any who hath the gift of Prayer and Interpretation of Scripture may both expound and dip and doe all such things as the Clergie of late have appropriated to themselves REPLY 1. The distinction of Priest and People is more ancient then the Leviticall Law and founded in the very Law of nature for the Indians have their Brackmans the Turks their Mufie●s the Heathen Romans had their Flamines and Arch-Flamines the Britaines and Galls their Druides Before the Law given we reade of Priests in Egypt and in Canaan and in Midian Melchizedech was a Priest to the most high God Gen. 14. 18. The Priests in Egypt had a portion by themselves Gen. 47. 22. Onely the land of the Priests Pharaoh bought not for the Priests had a portion assigned them and they did eat their portion which he gave them And Exod. 2. 16. there is mention of a Priest of Midian which had seven daughters 2. In the New Testament though the Leviticall Priesthood be taken away yet there still remaineth a distinction betweene the Clergie and Laitie for Christ Mat. 28. 19. giveth commission to his Apostles and their successors to teach all nations and baptize them and Iohn 20. 22. to remit and retaine sins and the Apostle evidently distinguisheth the Flock from their Pastours Act. 20. 28. Take heed to your selves and all the flock over which the holy Ghost hath made you overseers And Gal. 66. Let him that is taught in the word communicate to him that teacheth in all good things And Heb. 13. 17. Obey them that have the rule over you and submit your selves for they watch over your soules as they that must give account that they may doe it with joy and not with grief ARGUMENT II. That for which God inflicted most severe punishments in the Law ought not to be attempted by any that feare God But God inflicted severe punishments upon Lay persons for usurping upon and intermedling with the Priests function as namely upon Corah Da●han and Abiram Num. 16. 31. and upon Vzza 2 Sam. 6. 7. and upon Vzziah 2 Chron 26. 21. Ergo None that feare God ought to attempt any such thing ANABAP ANSWER These plagues and judgements fell upon the persons above named for other crimes namely upon Corah and his complices for their conspiracie against Moses and Aaron Uzza for his presumption and Uzziah for his pride not simply for those acts done by them which seemed to trench upon the Priests and Levites office REPLY 1. It is true that the former delinquents were guilty of other crimes For as Angels often appeare single but Devils by legions so eminent vertues are for the most part single and rare in men but enourmous vices are seldome alone Yet this no way dulleth the point of the argument For the Text is expresse that the particular punishments above mentioned were laid upon them for those illegall acts done by them to the wrong and prejudice of the Sacerdotall function For what saith the Text Corah and his company said to Moses and Aaron You take too much upon you seeing all the congregation are holy every one of them Ver. 18. They took very man his censer and put fire on them and that hereby they encroached upon the Priests office it is evident by Moses reproofe ver 9 10. Is it a small thing that God hath appointed you to stand before the congregation to minister unto them and he hath brought thee neere unto him and seek ye the Priesthood also Likewise it is said of Vzza that he put his hand to the Ark of God and that therefore the Lord was wroth with him and smote him in the same place And for Vzziah the case is yet clearer for the Priests withstood him and said unto him 2 Chron. 26. 18 19. It pertaineth not unto thee Vzziah to burne incense to the Lord but to the Priests the sonnes of Aaron yet Vzziah will be medling with the censer and be burning incense contrary to the Law and thereby he incensed the wrath of God against himselfe and immediately the leprosie rose up in his forehead before the Priests in the house of the Lord besides the Incense Altar 2. I grant Corah and his complices couspired against Moses and Aaron but the cause was Moses and Aaron withstood his ambition and would not suffer him to arrogate to himselfe the Priests f●●●tion Vzza was presumptuous but for ought appeares in the Text he shewed it in nothing but this that he without any calling from God presumed to touch his Arke and doe the office of a Priest Vzziah was proud and it was the height of his pride which moved him to burne incense and not content with his Scepter to meddle with the Censer I shall adde no more to enforce this Reason then the Application of the words of the Oratour to Mark Anthonie I wonder Anthonie that thou art not frighted at their ends whose courses thou followest So I very much marvaile that they who doe such things as Corah Vzza and Vzziah smarted for feare not that they shall suffer in the like kind or a worse without repentance For although the earth open not her mouth and swallow them up as she did Dathan and his fellow Conspiratours yet Hell will open her mouth and swallow them body and soule And though God smite them not with temporall death as he did Vzza yet he will with eternall And though their flesh be not infected with leprosie as Vzziah's was yet their consciences are most foule and leprous in the sight of God ARGUMENT III. All that take upon them to execute the office of a Priest or Minister of the Gospel ought to have a calling thereunto Heb. 5. 4. 1 Tim. 4. 14. But Lay persons whether Merchants or Artizans or Husbandmen or any the like have no calling to execute the office of a Priest or Minister of the Gospel Ergo they may not assume or arrogate it to themselves ANABAP ANSWER Gods conferring gifts upon any man is a sufficient calling as for the imposition of Episcopall hands it is an Antichristian rite and giveth the partie ordained no power at all REPLY There is a double calling necessary to a dispenser of the mysteries of salvation Inward and Outward The Inward enableth them the Outward authorizeth them to discharge their sacred function Where thers are gifts if God encline the heart of the party to enter into the Ministery there is an inward calling yet this alone sufficeth not without an outward calling either ordinary or extraordinary Extraordinary callings sith Miracles are ceased we are not now to expect nor if any pretend easily beleeve or give way thereunto and therefore wee must stick to the ordinary calling by the imposition of the hands of the Presbyterie